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This Week July 11, 1990. Page M5

Voiceprint phone has ears and a brain

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phone technologies are
being developed every
week. And the phones are
not all black. They even
provide convenient ser-
vices. The latest one lis-
Mons. Yell “Police!” and it
will dial them. Murmur
your wife's name and there
she is. Say “Revenue
Canada” and it discon-
nects. It’s called the

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By FRANK OGDEN

Voiceprint Phone and it
does a lot more than dial.

All contained in a 6.5 X 8
inch footprint, Voiceprint can
dial 50 contacts, record
names of people and com-
panies called, length of con-
versation and dates of the
last 100 phone calls. Say

Voiceprint, the very latest in
call convenience technology, is
easy to use. Just pick up the
handset, say the name of the
person or company you want to
call and with state-of-the-art
voice recognition the Voiceprint
phone does the rest. This phone
can be programmed right from

"The disappearance
of the Smith family

itting alone in my small apartment, I watched
the rain teem down. I hoped that they were
getting it back home on the farm where it was
so badly needed.

I had not been in the city long. I had found a job almost
right away, working in one of the department stores, but
finding a place to live on the wages paid was something
else. I liked to think of my place as an apartment, but in
reality it was little more than a housekeeping room with
bath. And I was lonely. For, while there is a sense of

; adventure being on one’s own, there is also great loneli-

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ness. The people in the area didn’t seem very friendly, but
it was in the depression and they all had their own
problems.

I was letting the sound of the rain lull me into thinking of home
and loved ones when there was
a knock on the door.

The young woman standing
there was not much older than
I. She had a bag of groceries in
one arm and a small boy by the
hand. She had auburn hair, a
splatter of freckles across her
nose, and she wore a simple
print dress.

“Hi, neighbor,” she said. “I
thought we’d come up and have
a welcome party.” She walked
in past me and put her bag
down on the small dinette
table. The little boy, after a grin
at me, clambered up on one of
the chairs.

I guess I must have still
looked surprised, because she turned and held out her hand.

“T’m Marcie,” she said. “This is Mark. We live just down stairs.”
As she talked, she was taking things out of the bag; three bottles
of Orange Crush, a box of cookies and a small carton of ice cream.

“Ivy,” she said, repeating my name. “Bet you got poison Ivy in
school.” I laughed, admitting she was right. The ice was broken.
I set out the few dishes I had, and we had our little party. Then
we talked, while Mark investigated. I liked Marcie. Her coming
had been a kind gesture. I would not feel nearly as lonely now I
knew they were in the building. I hoped to see more of them.

=Geldenrod=

By IVY KENT

_ AndIdid. Even Marcie’s husband, Ron, found time to do some
= repairs for me, although he wasn’t home much. He had the same

easy-going fatalistic outlook as Marcie and one could not help
but be light-headed in their company. Just knowing Marcie
made my life easier.

She dragged me out of the apartment. We went to the neigh-
borhood “Dreamland” theatre, ate popcorn and laughed at old
movies. We took Mark to the park, and went for picnics by the
river. Seeing the city through Marcie’s eyes it was no longer an
alien place. And because I felt more at home, I found it easier to
talk with other people and so my world became a little wider.

Then, suddenly, without a word, Marcie was gone. Two
policemen arrived at my door that morning, asking if 1 knew the
whereabouts of the Smith family. At first, I didn’t know who they
were talking about.

“Their apartment is empty,” one of the men said. “They must
have left sometime during the night.” They told me that they
were looking for Ron in connection with a bank robbery, and
asked me to let them know if Marcie got in touch with me.

After they left, I sat there feeling bereft. I never heard from
Marcie again. But I like to think she is safe in some other city,
easing some other person’s lonely transition, just as she eased
mine.

your personal telephone direc-
tory.

Voiceprint analyses your voice
and creates a unique voice print
of each name programmed into
the telephone and then stores
the information. You can even
watch your voiceprint being
formed in the LED readout win-
dow. When you “voice activate’ a
call the LED window displays
the name and number you've
commanded it to call and
Voiceprint dials the number
automatically. Eliminate ad-
dress books and lifting heavy
directories. End hassles with
operators. No longer miss im-
portant calls because of a
misplaced number.

Get this phone and you won't
ever mis-dial a number again.
Touch a single key and emergen-
cy numbers will be automat-
ically dialed — so important
when there are children at
home. An additional 100 names
can be fed into the Speed Dialing

Do It For Your Heart...

function.

Call logging also allows selec-
tive redialing of the last 100
numbers phoned. A built-in
directory protection system
prevents searches, deletions
and unauthorized outgoing calls
... either via the sleek handset
or via the speakerphone. The
LCD display shows names,
numbers, special features and
codes.

Ahold button is provided and
the unit can be programmed for
any language. You just have to
remember three “single touch”
programming keys. A flash but-
ton activates your current call-
waiting or three-way calling
service. Redial is just a key
away. An alarm clock feature
displays time, date and elapsed
time of calls.

The unit is both hearing aid
and computer compatible, and
it?s pulse/tone switchable. The
deluxe Model 200 (evaluated for
this column) has incoming call

screening which lets you receive
only important calls, while
recording the numbers of other
incoming calls. A pager forward-
ing feature automatically relays
an incoming caller’s number to
your display pager. That unit
can forward calls to you
anywhere in B.C. Acall answer-
ing feature can record phone
numbers of the last 50 incoming
calls.

Along with a phone base,
handset and AC adapter, the
Voiceprint phone comes com-
plete with batteries (4 AA cells)

for backup power in case of
power outages and curled hand-
set and telephone line cords. It
carries a one year warranty. The
cost? Just over $200 (U.S.). Oh
yes, the color? It’s ebony.

More information: Innovative
Communications, 300-1 (C)
Route 17, Lodi, NJ 07644. Tel.
201/470-5701.

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